Day 53/365

     I'm petsitting for my cousin this week, so I get to hangout with her incredibly sweet yellow lab, Sage. She could quite literally be the nicest dog on the planet. I'd take dogsitting her over babysitting any day!

Day 52/365

     There was a big display at the garden store next to our studio for Mother's Day today: tons of different bouquets and garden baskets and stuff like that. One of the employees was watering the lilies when I was in there on my break so I took a quick picture. 

Day 51/365

     One of my childhood friends is in town this week so she stopped over today to visit and brought her two year-old son with her as well. He's definitely a bundle of energy. We spent most of the afternoon outside; playing in the sprinkler, running around after the dogs, and playing with bubbles. I could definitely go for a nap right about now!

Day 50/365

     The weather couldn't seem to make up its mind at all today. It started out cool and cloudy this morning, then stormed a bit, and then alternated between sun and storm clouds for the rest of the day. I got caught in one of the mini storms on my way home from running errands, and liked how the water droplets looked on my car's window. I'm also a sucker for the bokeh effect so that was just an added bonus!

Day 49/365

     Guess whose mom is going to be upset when she comes home and sees what one of the dogs did to the patio window... I guess Kilee's nails are sharper than I thought. How does that even happen?

Day 48/365

     Today my mom and I went back out to the cabin to finish up the yard work we started yesterday. It was beautiful out, and there were butterflies everywhere! I especially liked this Black Swallowtail that I took a picture of on my mom's azaleas.

Day 47/365

     My mom and I went out to her cabin today to do some yard work. I got a quick picture of a little honey bee checking out some of the wildflowers before they were mowed down. 

Day 46/365

     I got a rare Thursday off from the portrait studio and decided to go to the zoo! I haven't been in years, so I was really looking forward to it. Then the weather powers-that-be decided to have the temperatures today go into the 90s. It was an absolutely beautiful day, just a bit too hot for me, and apparently too hot for 3/4 of the animals at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo as well. It was still a fun day, but I think I'll have to plan a trip back when/if we get a more seasonably spring day. The flamingos were still out in full force though!

     I also made a triptych with photos of the African Elephants from today too! It can be seen on my Flickr page here. I'm currently replacing my website's editing software, so unfortunately my website won't be updated with new photos for another week or two. After being sent the wrong version of the program, I'm now waiting on the replacement to come in.

Day 45/365

     Springtime means spring noises! Birds chirping, breeze blowing... and lawn mowers mowing. For today's post I stood on the front porch of my mom's house and just recorded the ambient sounds of the birds chirping and flying around and our neighbor working on his yard. 

Day 44/365

     I came back home from shooting a project to find this little guy hanging out on my mom's car. After a quick google search I think it might be a Red Admiral Butterfly, but I'm not positive. I was only able to get the one picture before it flew away, but hopefully we'll be getting more butterflies as the weather evens out and gets warmer.